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Experimentally testing animal responses to prescribed fire size and severity
Conservation Biology, Volume 38, Issue 3, June 2024.Abstract Deserts are often highly biodiverse and provide important habitats for many threatened species. Fire is a dominant disturbance in deserts, and prescribed burning is increasingly being used by conservation managers and Indigenous peoples to mitigate the damaging effects of climate change, invasive plants, and land‐use change. The size, severity,
Tim S. Doherty +4 more
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SOUTHGATE'S COMPOUND ONLY‐WAY EVOLUTIONARY THEODICY: DEEP APPRECIATION AND FURTHER DIRECTIONS
Zygon, 2018 Christopher Southgate offers a remarkable evolutionary theodicy that includes six affirmations and arguments; together they form a unique and very persuasive proposal which he terms a “compound evolutionary theodicy.” Here I summarize the arguments and ...
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A Kantian Analytic of the Ugly [PDF]
, 2017 Kant’s theory of taste, as expounded in the Critique of Judgment, deals exhaustively with judgments of beauty. Rarely does Kant mention ugliness. This omission has led to a debate among commentators about how judgments of ugliness should be explained in ...
Buckman, Christopher
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Journal of the World Aquaculture Society, Volume 55, Issue 2, April 2024.Abstract The live transport of farmed fish is an important practice in Chinese aquaculture due to consumer preferences in its domestic market. However, live transport can be stressful for fish and may cause many welfare issues. This study aimed to examine the effects of transport density on the welfare of largemouth bass (Micropterus salmoides).
Yifei Yang +12 more
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Logostalgia: Eschatology and the Sixth Extinction
ZygonWhat would it mean to give a theological account of mass extinction events? Taking into consideration new developments in extinction studies alongside the Greek tradition’s vocabulary for the created order, this article argues that an eschatology ...
Anthony D. Baker
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The interaction of social and perceivable causal factors in shaping ‘over-imitation’ [PDF]
, 2018 Over-imitation has become a well-documented phenomenon. However there is evidence that both social and visible, physically causal factors can influence the occurrence of over-imitation in children. Here we explore the interplay between these two factors,
Burdett, Emily +3 more
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Posterity or Prosperity? Critiquing and Refiguring Prosperity Theologies in an Ecological Age
, 2015 At the beginning of the twenty-first century, prosperity theologies have simultaneously received a warm reception by some and a critical cold shoulder by others.
Swoboda, A.J.
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MODELING THE COSMOS: TRANSFORMATIVE PEDAGOGY IN SCIENCE AND RELIGION
Zygon, 2018 This article reflects on the classroom pedagogy promoted by Christopher Southgate and its implications for the science–theology conversation. It highlights several important aspects of Southgate's pedagogy. The use of models of God, humanity, and cosmos
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TRANSFORMING THEOLOGICAL SYMBOLS
Zygon, 2010 In this essay I explore the need for transforming the Christian theological symbols of the Trinity, Incarnation, and Redemption, which arose in the context of neo‐Platonic metaphysics, in light of late modern, especially Peircean, metaphysics and ...
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Effect of breakfast fat content on glucose tolerance and risk factors of atherosclerosis and thrombosis [PDF]
, 1998 Twenty-four middle-aged healthy men were given a low-fat high-carbohydrate (5.5 g fat; L), or a moderately-fatty, (25.7 g fat; M) breakfast of similar energy contents for 28 d. Other meals were under less control.
Fletcher, RJ +6 more
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